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deck. “Sounds just like your constipated voice.”
    “Stow it, Reynolds,” Thorne said.
    Shane just raised his hand and gave everyone the finger as he took the stairs up to the observation deck where he heard Kinsey and Darren talking.
    “I’ll call the meeting,” Thorne said to Ballantine.
    “Thank you, Commander,” Ballantine said, then looked down at the stains on his khakis from where Lucy had puked on him during the ride from the island to the ship. “Give everyone time to clean up. Say, thirty minutes?”
    “Will do,” Thorne nodded.
     
    ***
     
    The briefing room looked more like a corporate boardroom than a meeting room on a ship. The walls were paneled in expensive wood while the long table in the middle was made from a single piece of teak. Monitors lowered from the ceiling along the walls except for one side of the room which was nothing but sliding glass doors that looked out onto the clear blue waters of the South Pacific.
    “Everyone take a seat,” Thorne said as he sat towards the front of the table. “Lake won’t be joining us since we have to get moving into open waters as soon as possible.”
    Darren, Kinsey, Shane, Max, and Darby, all came in and took their seats. Two of the newer additions to Team Grendel came into the room just after them.
    In her late forties, with short, bobbed blonde hair and hazel eyes, Dr. Lisa Morganton was known as calm, cool, and collected. In charge of the advanced bio-alternatives division of the company Ballantine worked for, Dr. Morganton was presumed dead in order to be protected from retribution by the Colende drug cartel after having her cover blown as an inside operative. Unfortunately for the doctor, that rouse made no difference since the cartel wanted everyone on the B3 dead.
    The other newer addition was former Navy SEAL, Mike Pearlman. A double amputee, Mike had been recruited by a man called McCarthy to pilot narco-subs that Dr. Morganton had designed. Team Grendel had thwarted those plans and recruited Mike once the mission was over, not just because of his skills as an ex-SEAL, but because he had a personal relationship with Gunnar.
    It was all very complicated for everyone.
    “How the legs doing today, Mike?” Kinsey asked as she looked at his robotic prosthetics. “Still no glitches?”
    “None,” Mike said as he sat down, the gyros and servos in his legs whirring then going silent once he was settled. “Morganton and Gunnar have kept them running beautifully.”
    “I bet Gunnar has,” Max said, nudging his brother. “Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.”
    “You ever take them off before you do it with Gunnar?” Shane asked Mike. “I bet you do, huh? Give him a little double stump action.”
    “What the fuck is double stump action?” Max asked.
    “I don’t know, I just made it up,” Shane replied. “Sounds dirty, though, doesn’t it?”
    “Totally,” Max grinned then looked at Darby. “Maybe you and I could have a little double stump action later, eh, my little assassin of love?”
    “Don’t be an idiot,” Darby frowned, “you have both of your legs.”
    “Yet, none of his brains,” Kinsey said, getting a smile from Darby.
    “We are not together,” Mike said. “Gunnar has been very clear on that.”
    “Clear on what?” Gunnar asked as he stepped into the briefing room. “What’d I miss?”
    “Apparently you’re missing some double stump sexiness,” Max said. “Your loss, dude.”
    Gunnar looked at the brothers then just took his seat. “Okay, I’m going to ignore that. Sorry I was late, had to make sure Lucy was hooked up to an IV.”
    “She going to be alright?” Darren asked.
    “She’ll be fine once she’s fully hydrated,” Gunnar said then looked at Ballantine. “So, what’s the hurry that you had me backup all my files and start a satellite transfer?”
    “That wasn’t supposed to be public knowledge,” Ballantine said.
    “There’s twenty of us on this ship, Ballantine,” Gunnar said. “Everything